LLC STATES

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Idaho LLC

oldest record on this page verified 2026-08-04

sources: linked on each field, listed in full below

Idaho prices expedited service in working hours

Speed is Idaho's headline: the statute prices an expedited lane measured in working hours, and the record confirms that lane covers forming an LLC. The office separately posts how far behind its current queue runs, dated as an observation. The yearly obligation is real but free: the state expects its report by the close of the anniversary month and prices that filing at an explicit zero, a published nothing rather than a gap in the record.

the rest of this note

An assumed business name here is filed once and then simply lives: no renewal cycle, no expiry, cancellation only when the owner asks for it. What the certificate does is disclose who trades under the name, and it stops there, conferring nothing like a trademark. Recurring state tax obligations end the same way, marked absent against the statute.

every claim above is a line below

Should you form your LLC in Idaho?

If the answer is yes, the home-state rule points to Idaho.

Office or storefront in Idaho?

Yes, it will

A business with a real footprint in Idaho files in Idaho. Forming anywhere else adds a foreign registration back home: two filings, two annual bills, two registered agents. The out-of-state discount does not survive that arithmetic.

No, it will not

This one answer cannot choose a state. Use the full four-question wizard with the place where the business will actually operate. Open the full wizard .

Annual report

$0

Due End of anniversary month, printed as the state writes it.

last verified 2026-09-03

sos.idaho.gov

Franchise tax

none

No recurring state-level tax on an LLC here. The absence is verified against the state, not missing data.

verified absent 2026-08-07

legislature.idaho.gov

Anonymous LLC

no

Member or organizer names reach the public formation record here.

last verified 2026-08-10

legislature.idaho.gov

Processing time

published, not as a range

The state publishes a processing time in prose rather than as a range, so this sheet links it instead of restating it. Expedited formation starts at $40.

as observed on 2026-08-06

sos.idaho.gov

Name designators

Must contain the words "Limited Liability Company" or "Limited Company," or the abbreviations "L.L.C.," "LLC," "L.C.," or "LC." The word "Limited" may be abbreviated "Ltd." and "Company" may be abbreviated "Co."

Statute: Idaho Code § 30-21-302(d).

last verified 2026-08-04

legislature.idaho.gov

Name reservation

$20

Optional filing that holds the name for 4 months before you form.

last verified 2026-08-04

sosbiz.idaho.gov

DBA

assumed business name

One statewide register; the filing costs $25.

last verified 2026-08-06

sosbiz.idaho.gov

An individual as the agent

allowed

Whether a person may hold the seat, so nobody has to be hired. The terms Idaho attaches, and the entity question, sit in the registered agent section.

last verified 2026-08-09

sos.idaho.gov

Late filing penalty

none

No late fee is published for a missed report, and that is a checked finding rather than a gap. It is not an all-clear: the state can still dissolve the LLC by administrative action, and section 09 carries that record.

verified absent 2026-08-11

legislature.idaho.gov

field 05 carries the date it was observed, not a promise: of the two halves beside it, only the expedited tiers are prices the state commits to

What are the Idaho DBA rules?

Idaho calls it the assumed business name, and keeps one statewide register for it. The state filing costs $25.

Where an LLC files

sosbiz.idaho.gov

How long it lasts

Perpetual (no expiration)

An assumed business name is in effect from filing until the owner cancels it under Idaho Code § 30-21-809; there is no renewal.

Newspaper publication

not required

What the filing protects

no exclusive right

An assumed business name discloses the name a business trades under and grants no exclusive trademark right. It does carry a practical effect: Idaho requires an assumed business name to be distinguishable on the Secretary of State's records, so an active ABN blocks a later entity or ABN that is not distinguishable from it while it stays on file.

Where to search existing names

sosbiz.idaho.gov

Assumed business names appear in the Secretary of State's SOSBiz business search alongside entities, since they share the same distinguishability records. Idaho keeps DBAs at the state level, so there is no separate county index to check.

one record, verified 2026-08-06 · Idaho Code § 30-21-805

legislature.idaho.gov

What does it take to register a foreign LLC in Idaho?

Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in Idaho. The registration costs $100. That price belongs to a separate filing event, so it enters no cost total on this site.

Registration fee

$100

Online base filing fee of $100.00 for the Foreign Registration Statement; paper submissions add a $20.00 manual processing fee.

sos.idaho.gov

The official form

Foreign Registration Statement

archive.sos.idaho.gov

Filed with

Idaho Secretary of State, Business Services Division

sos.idaho.gov

After registration

File an annual report with the Idaho Secretary of State and maintain a registered agent in Idaho.

sos.idaho.gov

one record, verified 2026-08-08

The same fee for every other jurisdiction sits on one page: foreign qualification fees for every jurisdiction.

Who can be the registered agent in Idaho?

Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in Idaho. Idaho lets a natural person serve, so no commercial agent is required. The LLC itself may also hold the seat.

An individual as the agent

Allowed

in the state's words An individual who lives in Idaho

sos.idaho.gov

The LLC as its own agent

Allowed

sos.idaho.gov

A mailbox service as the address

not read at this pin

Address rule

A physical street address in Idaho (no P.O. boxes), available during normal business hours.

sos.idaho.gov

one record, verified 2026-08-09

The same four answers for every other jurisdiction sit on one page: registered agent rules for every jurisdiction.

What happens if you don't file the Idaho annual report?

A missed report has its own record in Idaho: the penalty, the dissolution clock, and the way back. No late fee is published, and that is a checked finding rather than a gap.

  1. Late filing penalty

    none published

    The state can still dissolve the LLC by administrative action, so a missing fee is not an all-clear.

    legislature.idaho.gov

  2. Administrative dissolution

    after 60 days of delinquency

    The first stage the state publishes, in its own unit: after this interval the state may dissolve the LLC by administrative action.

    legislature.idaho.gov

  3. Reinstatement

    no single figure

    as the record reads An Application for Reinstatement may be filed up to ten years after dissolution and requires payment of every fee, tax, interest and penalty due at or since dissolution. Idaho publishes the application's own filing fee only inside its online filing system, so no figure is recorded here.

    legislature.idaho.gov

one record, verified 2026-08-11

The same three answers for every other jurisdiction sit on one page: late fees and reinstatement for every jurisdiction.

Where do these figures come from?

Every figure on this sheet renders from the pinned dataset snapshot, and each card links the page its own figure came from. This list collects those pages in one place, with the duplicates removed and the agency named.

The rule behind every figure here, and what a card does when one cannot be verified, sits on how a figure gets verified.

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